So… Ginger Pops has now morphed from a “Cupcake purist” to an “everything and anything that’s a challenge goes”. When I look back on how much I’ve changed and how, in the beginning, I stubbornly steered clear of novelty cake orders (for the simple reason that it was a daunting challenge that my pastry chef studies failed to prepare me for.
Being that naive, however, is commonly short lived, and within 2 months of opening my business I had too many birthday cake requests to turn down. Since then, I haven’t looked back.

It just goes to show how sometimes we can stubbornly lodge ourselves in what we comfortably know, sometimes even to an illogical extent. The ideas are there, but the energy and confidence to make it happen, are not.
That’s not to say that everyone is like that, I’ve met many people who are really out there with new ideas and don’t hesitate to try new things, something I aspire to be capable of doing eventually.

So these are some of the cakes I’ve made over the past 2.5 years, each one I had to work out and teach myself to make. I’ve always preferred using actual pictures of the different characters/ themes as apposed to copying from other cakes barring some frill techniques etc. Some of the techniques I learnt from the very kind Cakers out there that have made tutorials, while my figurine making I have worked out for myself.

Enjoy this chance to procrastinate 😉

❤ Ginger Pops

8-bit Mario for the love of my life’s birthday ❤

Taiwanese Lion mask for Shun Wu Tang Kung fu school in PE’s Shifu.

Jake the dog from Adventure Time made from caramel mud cake with coffee cream. For my Adventure Time crazy friend.

Orange mini wedding cake

Red Velvet frog pops.

Owls in the woods for a 3rd birthday. Red velvet cupcakes and chocolate fudge cake.